LibreMesh/Changelog

Changelog 17.06 Dayboot Rely

• based on LEDE 17.01.2
• build everything using LEDE SDK, via new lime-sdk cooker (instead of lime-build)
• use ieee80211s instead of adhoc
• reintroduced firewall package (to keep closer to upstream)
• lime-system: fix ieee80211s proto, correctly construct ifnames
• lime-system: sanitize hostname (transform everything into alphanumeric and dash)
• lime-system: new proto static
• lime-system: new wifi mode client
• lime-system: set dnsmasq force=1 to ensure dnsmasq never bails out
• lime-system: explicitly populate /etc/config/lime with calculated values
• lime-webui: enable i18n, finally webinterface is available in Spanish
• lime-webui: Major rework by NicoPace, thanks!
  • bmx6 node graph now uses colors in a clever way
  • simple way to add "system notes" that are shown along with /etc/banner and webui
  • luci-app-lime-location: fix google maps api key
  • new read-only view: switch ports status
  • alert luci-mod-admin users that their changes might get overwritten by lime-config
  • fix batman-adv status webui
• new package available to install lighttpd instead of uhttpd (needed for an upcoming android app)
• added a lime-sysupgrade command: does a sysupgrade but only preserving libremesh configuration file
• added a lime-apply command: basically calls reload_config, but also applies hostname system-wide without rebooting
• lime-hwd-ground-routing: ground routing now supports untagged ports too
• lime-proto-anygw: unique mac based on ap_ssid (using %N1, %N2)
• lime-proto-anygw: integrate better into /etc/config/dhcp instead of /etc/dnsmasq.d/
• lime-proto-wan: allow link-local traffic over wan (useful for local ping6 and ssh, without global exposure)
  • lime-proto-batadv: set batadv gw_mode=client by default to counteract rogue DHCP servers
  • lime-proto-bmx6: introduce bmx6_pref_gw option, adds priority (x10) to a specific bmx6 gateway
  • lime-proto-bmx6: don't tag bmx6 packets over ethernet and so use at least mtu=1500 everywhere
• lime-proto-bmx6: avoid autodetected wan interface use vlan for bmx6
• bmx6: doesn't flood log with some spurious warnings anymore (syslog=0)
• bmx6: sms plugin now enabled by default
• bmx6: daemon is now supervised by procd, so it is restarted in case of crashes
• bmx6: doesn't configSync by default anymore (no more "uci pending changes" because of auto-gw-mode)
• new bmx6hosts tool: maintain an /etc/hosts that resolves fd66: <-> hostnames.mesh
• watchping: convert to procd and add reload triggers
• safe-reboot: fix, use /overlay/upper instead of /overlay
• safe-reboot: add </code>discard action
• ath9k: debugged some hangs (interface is deaf) and workaround it, with new package <code>smonit
• set wifi default distance parameter to 1000 metres and make it configurable through webui
• alfred: fix bat-hosts facter, check for errors and don't nuke /etc/bat-hosts in case of failure
• introduce new lime-basic-noui metapackage
• new packages separated: lime-docs and lime-docs-minimal
• various Makefile dependency problems fixed

Changelog 16.07 Community Chaos

• Based on OpenWrt Chaos Calmer 15.05.1
• Removed firewall package (which is included by default in vanilla OpenWrt/LEDE), since it's not really being used in LibreMesh setup. It can always be installed on a case-by-case basis using opkg.
• Removed odhcpd since we're not using it at the moment (we use dnsmasq)
• Removed odhcp6c since we're not using it at the moment (we still haven't solved how to deal with native IPv6 coming over WAN, i.e. propagate a delegated prefix over the mesh in a reasonable way)
• New default packages: lime-hwd-openwrt-wan and lime-proto-wan. This checks if there's a WAN port, and automatically configures as "wan" proto (lime-proto-wan). The "wan" proto let's you assign in /etc/config/lime, for example, 802.1ad VLANs over the WAN port.
• New default package: lime-hwd-ground-routing. Allows you to configure 802.1q VLANs on embedded switches, so that you can separate specific ports and put
• New default package: bmx6-auto-gw-mode, so that when a node detects (with watchping) it can ping 8.8.8.8 over WAN port, a bmx6 tunIn is created on-the-fly, and Internet is shared to the rest of the clouds.
• Workaround for an spurious log message caused by BATMAN-Adv (br-lan: received packet on bat0 with own address as source address"): a dummy0" interface is created and added to <code>bat0, with a slightly different MAC address
  • https://lists.open-mesh.org/pipermail/b.a.t.m.a.n/2014-March/011839.html
• New available packages: lime-proto-bgp, allows to do BGP with bird daemon; and lime-proto-olsr, -olsr2 and -olsr6, which add support for all versions of OLSR.
• Some new settings possible in /etc/config/lime-defaults
  • wireless.htmode lets you preset the htmode for any wireless radio (or htmode_2ghz and htmode_5ghz for specific bands)
  • wireless.distance is the equivalent, for setting distance (and distance_2ghz / _5ghz)